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Dante

Dante

Artist:

John Adams Jackson (American, 1825 - 1879)

Date:

n.d.

Medium:

Marble

Dimensions:

16 1/4 x 13 x 2 5/16 in. (41.2 x 33 x 5.8 cm)

Description:

Here, the Ameircan sculptor John Adams Jackson has chosen to depict the eminent Italian poet Dante in profile and framed in a way that suggests and enhances the subject’s position within literary history. The nineteenth century witnessed a renaissance of interest in Dante, and Boston/Cambridge became a veritable hotbed of Dante studies. As Italy’s greatest poet whose work was a harbinger of the soon-to-flourish Renaissance, Dante was a natural subject for the neoclassical sculptor.